Big Agenda: President Trumps Plan to Save America

Summary

Donald Trump’s victory in the 2016 election was more than a historic upset. It was the beginning of a major political, economic, and social revolution that will change America and the world.

One of the nation’s foremost conservative commentators, New York Times bestselling author, and a mentor to many of Donald Trump’s key advisers, David Horowitz presents a White House battle plan to halt the Democrats’ march to extinguish the values America holds dear.

With the White House and Senate in GOP hands, and a Supreme Court soon to follow, President Trump will have a greater opportunity than even Ronald Reagan had to reshape the American political landscape while securing the nation’s vital security interests abroad.

No president since FDR and his famed 100 Days’ has the chance Donald Trump has,” Horowitz argues.

But he writes that the GOP and Trump must recognize they are not fighting policy ideas, but an ideology a progressive one with a radical agenda to stop Trump in an effort to reduce America’s power and greatness.

Big Agenda is a rallying cry and indispensable guide for how to claim ultimate victory for the conservative cause.

Horowitz writes, One battle is over, but there are many more to come. This book is a guide to fighting the opponents of the conservative restoration. It identifies who the adversaries are their methods and their motivations.It describes their agenda not merely the particular issues with which they advance their goal, but the destructive goal itself. And it lays out a strategy that can defeat them.”

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Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.

—RONALD REAGAN

Contents

Introduction: Restoring the Nation to Greatness

Part I: The Adversary

1. New Wars to Fight

2. Divisions on the Right

3. The Roots of Executive Tyranny

4. The Progressive Movement

5. The Race Card

6. Hatred in Their Hearts

7. No Rules for Radicals

Part II: The Agenda

1. Obamacare: An Attack on Individual Freedom

2. The Environment: A Pretext for Government Control

3. The Myth of Systemic Racism

4. Globalism and Radical Islam

Part III: The Strategy

1. The Goal and the Path

2. It’s Time to Take the Gloves Off

3. The Achilles’ Heel of the Democratic Party

4. The Democrats’ Wars on Men and Women

5. Obstructionism Is a Good Thing If the Policies Are Bad

6. Ending Leftist Indoctrination in Our Schools

7. Fixing the Political Universe That Doesn’t Exist

8. Government Unions: A Conflict of Interest That Needs to Be Ended

9. Corruption and Cowardice

10. Party of the People

11. Go on the Attack and Stay on It

12. A Postelection Agenda

13. A Party for All the People

Conclusion: The Battle Plan: The First 100 Days

Notes

Index

Introduction

RESTORING THE NATION TO GREATNESS

DONALD TRUMP’S VICTORY IN the 2016 election was a political earthquake. It put an end to eight years of a left-wing presidency that divided the American people, eroded American sovereignty, diminished American power, and undermined a constitutional foundation that had made America prosperous and great.

Before the election, conservatives were justifiably worried that America’s decline was reaching a point of no return. When the results came in, they breathed a sigh of relief. A long and arduous battle had been successfully concluded. With conservatives in control of the three branches of government, the groundwork was laid to restore the country to prosperity and health. Americans could roll up their sleeves and begin the hard work of restoring the nation to greatness again.

There was truth in this feeling, but it was only a partial truth. To begin with, the election was narrowly won. Half the country had voted for a candidate who vowed to continue the Obama administration policies that had brought the nation to the brink. Half the country had voted for a candidate in favor of open borders, a candidate who willingly prosecuted the gender and racial wars of the political left. Half the country had voted for a candidate who viewed the Constitution as a changeable document, a candidate ready to appoint Supreme Court justices who believed its decisions should be based not on the law but on whether they achieved a progressive result.

When the votes were in, the anguished voices of the left provided a foretaste of the future in store for Republicans and their president over the next four years. Mourning in America was the way the Huffington Post announced Trump’s victory on the day after the election.¹ President Trump: A Colossal Failure for Democracy, and Our Terrifying New Reality, responded Salon.com, a website owned by the Washington Post.² Stoking the fires of racial conflict, CNN’s Van Jones called the election a white-lash against a black president.³ Echoing the incitement, Slate.com, owned by Microsoft, declared: White Won. This was Slate’s headline for a story by Jamelle Bouie, which read: Trump promised a resurgent white supremacy. And white voters embraced it. We are still the country that produced George Wallace. We are still the country that killed Emmet Till.⁴ As if ginning up a race war wasn’t sufficient, Slate also ran an article with the headline I Am a Gay Jew in Trump’s America. And I Am Afraid for My Life.⁵

These emotional provocations reflect the passions of a left that would not be stilled by the election result or conciliatory gestures the new president had already made. Instead, they will be inflamed by every step Trump takes along the path to reviving a battered country and restoring its constitutional order. These are the angry voices of a political culture that is at war with America. Worse yet, this is the dominant culture in our universities, in our media, in our judiciary, in government unions, and in the shadow political universe of nonprofits, with billions of tax-free dollars at their disposal.

The late Andrew Breitbart wisely observed that politics is downstream from culture. The culture wars conservatives have lost over the last half-century have transformed the Democratic Party into a party of the left and have led to the eight-year tenure of a radical president. These are the wars that must still be fought and won if the election victory is to remain secure; these are the wars that must be fought and won to keep the country back from the brink.

One battle is over, but there are many more to come. This book is a guide to fighting the opponents of the conservative restoration. It identifies who the adversaries are—their methods and their motivations. It describes their agenda—not merely the particular issues with which they advance their goal, but the destructive goal itself. And it lays out a strategy that can defeat them.

PART I

THE ADVERSARY

1

New Wars to Fight

AS WE ENTER THE Trump era, our country faces daunting threats to its security, prosperity, and freedom. For eight years, we have been led by a commander-in-chief dedicated to appeasing our enemies and degrading our military, reducing its forces to their lowest level since World War II. Weakness and uncertain resolve by America’s commander-in-chief have led to an expanding terrorist threat abroad and increasing terrorist attacks at home. At home, overtaxation, overregulation, and massive government debt have led to the most anemic economic recovery on record. Ninety-four million Americans have left the work force, and 47 million are on food stamps. Thirty years of Democratic Party attacks on our sovereignty have created porous national borders and an influx of hundreds of thousands of criminals and an unknown number of terrorists. Hundreds of Democrat-sponsored Sanctuary Cities—including such major urban centers as Los Angeles and New York—have set precedents of sedition by defying federal law to provide safe havens for criminals and terrorists who have crossed our borders illegally. Once-eradicated epidemic diseases like tuberculosis have returned with the influx of refugees from Somalia and other war-torn Third World countries, while our left-wing government has been busy importing tens of thousands of unvetted refugees from Middle-Eastern centers of the Islamic holy war against us.

At home, another war with racial overtones is being waged by the left and directed at law enforcement in cities across America, leading to a dramatic spike in homicides and other violent crimes. Aggressive assaults by progressives on the First and Second Amendments—the cornerstones of America’s freedoms—have divided America’s communities and set precedents for drastic curtailments of other American freedoms. Today, America is more divided and its major parties more polarized than at any time since the Civil War. The conclusion of the nastiest, most divisive election campaign within living memory augurs little hope that these conflicts will not occupy center stage in the political dramas of the next four years.

2

Divisions on the Right

DIVISIONS HAVE OPENED UP within the parties as well. But it is the division within the Republican Party that should be the first concern of Americans disturbed by the radicalism of the Obama years. Although Republicans finally came home to provide Trump with his margin of victory, a cohort of Never Trumpers did not. In 2012, the party’s nominee, Mitt Romney, had avidly sought Trump’s endorsement, saying, Donald Trump has shown an extraordinary ability to understand how our economy works to create jobs for the American people. He’s done it here in Nevada. He’s done it across the country. . . . I spent my life in the private sector. Not quite as successful as this guy.¹ But in 2016, when his country’s future was on the line, Romney led renegade Republicans in sabotaging the party’s nominee: Here’s what I know: Donald Trump is a phony, a fraud.² Romney’s eruption, like many similar attacks from Never Trumpers, was hard to explain. Romney certainly had never said anything as harsh about Obama during the 2012 campaign. Predictably, Democrats featured his outburst, along with those of several other disgruntled Republicans, in attack ads against a candidate who had won more primary votes than any Republican in history.

Former presidents George Herbert Walker Bush and George W. Bush sat on their hands throughout the campaign while making their displeasure with the candidate clear. A month before the November election, defeated primary candidate Jeb Bush pronounced Trump beyond the pale over an 11-year-old video that had been released by the pro-Clinton Washington Post in an effort to derail the Republican’s campaign. The video showed the candidate talking boorishly in a private conversation with Jeb’s cousin Billy.³ Trump apologized for his remarks, but Bush refused to accept his apology. As the grandfather of two precious girls, he tweeted, I find that no apology can excuse away Donald Trump’s reprehensible comments degrading women.⁴ This denial of forgiveness to Trump seemed somewhat inexplicable given the Bush family’s well-known embrace of Bill Clinton, whose sexual abuses, unlike Trump’s, were actions rather than boasts in private and were committed by a sitting governor and president and then exposed in front of a whole nation of precious girls.⁵

Claiming to be outraged by the video, as well as by other casual Trump remarks, some former members of the George W. Bush White House went so far as to announce that they were voting for the Democrat, Hillary Clinton. A former policy director for the House Republican conference, Evan McMullin, even launched a presidential run in Utah in the hopes of blocking a Trump majority in the Electoral College. All these defections raise troubling questions: What was it that these Republicans didn’t understand about the Democrats and their responsibility for the present perils of the nation? What did they not understand about the destructive agendas of the left that threatened its future?